The Wikipedia definition seems to indicate it has origins as a racist term and I’ve never understood why unix users have adopted this terms instead of something benign like “themes” or “theming” which I remember being in use long before I ever heard “rice”. So what gives? Why use “rice” instead of “theme”?
Why is it stupid to discuss whether the language we use could be harming people? If you’re not interested in joining that discussion productively, you could simply scroll on.
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Let me get this straight:
In the following scenario, the app developer is in the right?
Difference being that rice is not an insult per se, which means that using the term rice isn’t inherently racist.
To my (very obvious) thesis: “Uee Mario, pizza mare mandolino!” Isn’t racist, each of those words are innocent and have no negative meaning, yet it is racist as fuck
Checkmate to whatever you were trying to prove
I was responding to the argument in the previous comment, not making a point about the term “rice.”
Downvotes are cute, rebuttals are better. Do you just not like what I have to say, or can you teach me something? I’m all ears.